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- Who worries about how they will look when they’re older
honestly like the cheap shot here is elim because he’s a vain old lizard and very femme and like, he definitely does, loudly and overdramatically, complete with obnoxious performative sulking for several days after he finds his first real bona fide wrinkle, but tbh ben surreptitiously starts dyeing his beard when it starts going gray. he likes his glorious facial hair the color it is thank you and will not be having signs of aging on his chin. he dyes it secretly though because he absolutely gave elim a bunch of shit about his Aging Freakout.
- Who makes the mix tapes/cd’s
ben because elim listens to only terrible patriotic choirs and, like, heavily State Approved classical, and ben isn’t gonna listen to that, there’s only so far he can go for love. elim gripes about it but like. even he has to admit authoritarian anthems get boring after a while.
- Clings to the other during scary movies
ben absolutely. he is secretly a big baby when it comes to jump scares and always ends up in elim’s lap. elim learns this and immediately engineers things so that they watch more horror movies.
- Gets into the shower with the other randomly
elim will do this and also alerts ben to his presence by poking him in the back of the neck before getting in. this freaks ben out every time but he is plotting vengeance. he waits. he bides his time. one day elim is going to get into his sand bath and ben is going to be in there, at the bottom, with an oxygen tank, ready to grab some ankles.
- Flashes the other when they walk by after taking a shower alone
this is elim all the way. literally if the thermostat is high enough elim is totally an in the house nudist. he literally just lounges in his underwear or less like all of the time. ben just raises his eyebrows in elim’s direction, but then elim comes and drapes himself all over ben and it’s really very distracting.
- Initiates hand holding while the other is driving
honestly elim would do this, he has no sense of self preservation.
- Secretly tries to touch the other in naughty places during public/family events
okay look i know elim is the easy answer but like ben would never. also starfleet dinner parties are the Worst because elim will just be chattering away across the table from ben like nothing is happening while he has taken his foot out of its boot under the table and is working it up ben’s thigh, and ben is calculating whether to ignore it or retaliate in kind because if he ignores it then he has lost this one but if he retaliates in kind, the chance that they both embarrass themselves in front of admiral nechayev jumps to 95% and he honestly does not want that on his record.
however, when they’re hosting, they absolutely do sneak into to kitchen to make out under the pretext of bringing out desert. that one is on both of them.
- Asks weird questions in the middle of the night
okay you would think this one would be elim and like it is, he totally does this while he’s lying awake for hours from The Insomnia, but so does ben. like he will literally wake up from a dream, sit straight up and be like “elim, do you think really long lived species perceive less so they can store more memories?”
elim, hypocrite that he is, buries his face in the pillow and mumbles for ben to use space google, although can you really blame him? bc like years of expecting assassination means he wakes up on a hair trigger and if he isn’t expecting it he panics for a moment. he’s not in the mood for a weird philosophical discussion.
- Asks “what are you thinking about?”
this one is the purview of #1 best in quadrant caring and actually-decent-at-communicating husband benjamin sisko.
- Always has to be touching the other, (if either of them do)
okay ben is not a fan of pda, he’s a private guy, home is the place for touching, public is the place for restrained flirting. i’ve said this before. elim, again as i’ve said before, is very excited about the prospect of affection any time he wants that he doesn’t have to gruelingly earn or keep secret and has experienced a good deal of touch starvation so he is very tactile, (though of course under the pretext of heat-leeching, he has his pride). but ALSO he’s very much a possessive toucher. like, some woman is looking at ben the wrong way? oh looks like it’s time to put a very conspicuous hand on ben’s shoulder. a guy tries to flirt? time to link arms and also give that guy the Smile of Death. a person dares to actually touch ben in any capacity? mr. sisko is now wearing the world’s most jealous (and also scaliest) wraparound jacket.
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